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Do you realize that #WriteClub has been a THING for TWO FULL YEARS? That’s right. Twenty-four months, baby. One-hundred and four weeks. (Give or take, I mean we’d have to ask #StatsGuy…) I don’t even know how many sprints that is, or how many reports we’ve had, but I bet #StatsGuy could tell us and I bet it’s a LOT.

And YOU helped make that happen.

In celebration of the second anniversary of WriteClub’s creation, we’re very excited to host our second sprint marathon for NaNoWriMo writers on November 6th through 8th!!! WOOOO!!!!

*shoots off confetti and fireworks but not together because that could be dangerous…..*

Last year, the 372 international participants of our marathon wrote over 1.2 MILLION words in a forty-eight hour period. It was an incredible thing to be part of. Behind the scenes it was crazy and fun and exhausting, but we did it, and we’re SO EXCITED to do it again! We’re lucky we have even MORE Sprint Leaders this year, too, so hopefully we won’t get as tired as we did last time, but if we start breaking out into show tunes, at least you’ll know why.

SO! Mark your calendars!

#WriteClub NaNoWriMo Marathon

Midnight Friday morning in Sydney Australia, Nov. 7th

through

Midnight Friday night on the US East Coast, Nov. 7th.

(The time-math is crazy, but it’s basically almost forty-eight hours, guys.)

553 people participated in at least one sprint. There were 412 total sprints run for the year. A total of 3,712 sprint reports were made! 150 of those sprints were larger than 5000 words; 16 went over 10K, and 2 went over 20K. The entire top 9 largest sprints were on 11/1 during what would have been the normal UK #writeclub time in the midst of the marathon. All were over 14K.

52 weeks! 5,810,983 words! That’s 111,749.67 words/wk! 521 individual sprints were run across the 52 weeks, a total of 8,959 sprint reports were made! Holy crap!

Of the 521 sprints, 272 of them crossed the 10K barrier, 67 were above 15K, 18 went over 20K, 3 went over 25K, 1 over THIRTY THOUSAND WORDS. Believe it or not, during normal US #writeclub time during the marathon, the top 4 sprints were had. The top sprint outside the marathon was on 4/12, when 23,609 words were reported.

They both live in Eastern Australia, and are going to be taking the WriteClub reins from 7pm-midnight Sydney time. what does that mean for you? Well, do the math. 7pm Sydney time is midnight US Pacific. Sooo…

…that’s a lot of WriteClub.

For anyone NOT in NSW, AU, the Aussies will be writing during THESE TIMES:

UK: 8am-1pm

US East: 3am-8am

US West: 12am-5am

There will be a gap between the Aussie’s time slot and the UK starting up, but we can manage that, right? It’s just more time for you guys to write!

We’re definitely excited to see how this works out, and crossing our fingers for great things to come in 2014! See y’all on Friday!

Check out THIS VIDEO to see how we’ve been preparing to motivate you during the Marathon… oh yeah, we’re ready.

REMEMBER! Sprints begin at the STROKE OF MIDNIGHT AM on November 1. And we’ll go for approximately FORTY-EIGHT HOURS.

Or until our fingers fall off. Ya know, whichever comes first.

During that time, we’ll be giving away prizes and keeping stats on wordcounts. The CREW has dutifully been emailing back and forth for a couple weeks to make sure we know what’s going on, and we’re pretty sure we’ve got the rules decided.

During the marathon, each Sprint-Leader will choose a random participant from their time block to receive a prize. Also, Beau will be watching for the persons who take us over certain milestones, like 100K, 500K, and 1 Million words. The prizes could be anything from a prize pack of ebooks or edits to custom character artwork, to audiobooks or critiques.

We have a LOT of prizes ready for you.

Then, after the craziness is over, make sure you’re still paying attention! Because we’ll announce winners for some TOP SECRET AWARDS we’ll be looking to… award.

Lastly, we’ve gotta say this event is special for a lot of reasons. It’s the first anniversary of #WriteClub, it’s NaNoWriMo, and it’s also…

MEGAN WHITMER’S BIRTHDAY!!!

The boss and leader of #WriteClub has a birthday that week, so make sure you wish her the happiest of days! In fact, we’re making that a rule too. In order to win, you have to wish Megan a happy birthday.

All in all, it’s going to be a crazy weekend. So get your schedule set, your caffeine and snacks out, and your mode of writing ready. Let’s blow this thing out of the water.

See you November first, at the stroke of midnight. (EST)

*Please make sure you get sleep during this time. We are not encouraging you to stay up for 48 hours, that’s why we’re taking turns leading sprints. Be good to your brain, you need it. ❤

Just an update on #WriteClubNaNo. Unfortunately it’s looking like we won’t be able to do all of Friday for all of the world. This is still to be determined though, so we’ll update you as the time gets closer. For now, the schedule stands thus:

We’ll be kicking off #WriteClubNaNo at the stroke of midnight on the East Coast of the USA on the morning of November 1st.

We would LOVE to have as many people jump in on this as possible, and we’re counting on YOU GUYS to help spread the word! We’re sure there will be other hashtags running sprints (#NaNoWriMo being among them) but we’d love to see how many words we can get reported, and maybe even hit a MILLION WORDS in TWO DAYS.